Four points

We’ll bring you clarification on these points when we have them:

whether the additional budget cuts announced last night are the result of central Government further reducing the council’s budget or the council having underestimated how much costs and demand are rising and expected to rise

where the additional £11m savings will come from, given £42.8m are needed by 2010, £14.8m were already planned and an extra £16.2m will be planned

whether any jobs be lost as a result of the additional cuts

whether it can make extra money to reduce the need for cuts? If so what can it do?

12:04Sam Petherick

Podium backed

Bath residents have overwhelmingly backed the Podium as their preferred location for an integrated Library and One Stop Shop in a public consultation.

Members of the public were asked by the council for their views on where would be best to co-locate the library and one stop shop out of two viable options – the Podium or Lewis House - between July and September 2017.

A total of 1,891 people responded to the public consultation – details of which were shared on the council’s website, via social media, in libraries and one stop shops, GP surgeries, leisure centres, and children’s centres.

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Our questions for the council

We have asked the council to clarify:

whether the additional budget cuts announced last night are the result of central Government further reducing the council’s budget or the council having underestimated how much costs and demand are rising and expected to rise

where the additional £11m savings will come from, given £42.8m are needed by 2010, £14.8m were already planned and an extra £16.2m will be planned

whether any jobs be lost as a result of the additional cuts

whether it can make extra money to reduce the need for cuts? If so what can it do?